Identity theft happens in every community, so get help in your language

I hope the FTC is better funded & more efficient then SSA, SSA makes promises re: providing notices in different languages AND in larger font for those with low vision. I tried (as someone's representative) to get SSA to provide all notices to the low vision person I was assisting in large print. So the person could read it. Tried for months, was never successful. Spanish-speaking people have told me that SSA's notices are in what's probably Castilian Spanish, which is not what most Spanish-speaking people in the US speak. Hope the FTC does better.

Thank you for bringing attention to Identity Theft. Your efforts, and those of every other governmental or private entity, leave a void where FAMILIAL IDENTITY THEFT is the case. I have found it impossible to achieve minimal harm reduction and halting him has also proven impossible to date. Literally all recommended steps do nothing to help me. Proactive prevention (being careful in public/maintaining privacy)is useless. Those security questions offered by some websites are useless as well - he knows my first dog’s name/first concert attended/etc. Yet, some websites offer no option leaving me excluded from additional safety in security questions. This example is only one of many differences if your thief is a family member. My former spouse has actively stolen my identity for 20+ years and within the totality of my efforts to learn more about this specific type of ID theft, to reduce harm done to me, have all proven fruitless. My own government ignores this issue. Penalties are currently a joke, and need to be increased to a point where severity matches or exceeds the discomfort experienced by victims. Where do people like me go for help when there is none? It would have been so much easier if a stranger from a foreign country illegally purchased my personal data off of the dark web. And why, WHY, are victims of a crime where duration and depth of harm is indeterminable required to clean up the mess left them alone? I suspect I am not alone in having zero prior experience reversing damage done to me as his victim. My government and governing law have allowed an environment where little is done to discourage or halt clever criminals who slither away from responsibility in their actions. In my opinion, when a government fails to acknowledge this type of ID theft, fails to establish punishment severe enough to discourage it from starting, and through this silence effectively communicates to criminals that THIS TYPE OF ID THEFT will likely be a relative cake walk (no pun intended) - a brightly blinking neon invitation has been offered to him making me a perpetual victim. Good gosh, when will someone help with more than a blank form or customized recovery plan or offer useless preventive measures like not carrying a social security card in a purse? It IS a very different type of crime when your thief knows everything about you, yet no one acknowledges this.

Thank you for this feature

I am going through this and it is so depressing. I hope I can find a the rite help